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Germany abandons coal agreement after months of wrangling
Germany has abandoned plans for a tax on coal-fired power plants but will diminish brown-coal electricity generation to maintain its 2020 carbon-reduction targets, as stated by coalition leaders on Thursday.
read more... 03/07/2015
Daily: Oil losses ground again before OPEC meeting
Crude oil prices declined almost by 3 percent for a second consecutive day on Thursday ahead of an OPEC decision to maintain the market oversupplied and on concerns that spiking European bond yields could tighten the speculative money and depress oil. The highly expected OPEC meeting on Friday isn't expected to lead to easing of a glut of global-crude supplies or take into account the prospect of growing output from Iran. OPEC is expected to hold output target of 30 million barrels per day, ignoring calls from some producers to cut supply and support prices.
read more... 05/06/2015
French lawmakers reinstate nuclear reduction goal, decisive vote in July
The lower house of parliament in France ratified a version of the nation's energy transition law on Tuesday that reinstates main nuclear reduction targets diluted in March by the upper house Senate controlled by the Opposition.
read more... 27/05/2015
Daily: Crude oil prices recover on Israeli Prime Minister warning about a bad nuclear deal
Crude oil prices recovered on Tuesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the Obama administration was negotiated a bad nuclear deal with Tehran, which would almost guarantee nuclear weapons, while Libyan forces targeted oil terminals in the African nation. Brent crude front-month contract rose by $1.48, or 2.5 percent, to settle at $61.02 a barrel. It slipped nearly 5 percent on Monday, its biggest loss in a month. WTI crude increased by 88 cents at $50.47 a barrel, after it has lost ground earlier.
read more... 04/03/2015
Centrica examines final offers for UK gas plants
British utility Centrica is in the process of evaluating final offers for the gas-fired power plants it has put on sale but bids are estimated to be below the firm's target price of 500 million pounds ($767.8 million), according to sources familiar with the matter.
read more... 13/02/2015